[PATCH] work around ppc-vx6 make limitations

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 at 17:23, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 24, 2026, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 at 10:57, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com> wrote:
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> >> gcc/doc/install.texi states GCC requires make 3.80 to build, so
> >> rewrite those bits to avoid the new function.
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> > GNU Make 3.81 was 20 years old in April so this is depressing.
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> We can bump the requirement if we want to.
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> But it's not cool to document a requirement and then not honor it.

Right, we should fix the makefile. But I'm going to start a
conversation about bumping the requirement, and then maybe we can
revisit this later. But GCC 16 should build with the documented
requirement.

> More so when the problem comes up late in the build process and in a
> very obscure way that doesn't hint that it's a make version issue ;-)
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